So i fired up my lathe and chucked up a chunk of round scrap that i keep for small projects. It needed to have a 1 1/8" hole punched in the gasket. So i turned the chunk to 1 1/8" OD then turned the compound and cut from the center out making a nice sharp edge for the cutter. I left a small bump in the center of the punch to line up with the punch mark that i made with an ice pick down thru the diaphram cover. Just lined up the punch mark and slid everything in my shop press and punched it out. Perfect. 5 minute job....Bob
(09-23-2012, 02:36 PM)aametalmaster Wrote: [ -> ]So i fired up my lathe and chucked up a chunk of round scrap that i keep for small projects. It needed to have a 1 1/8" hole punched in the gasket. So i turned the chunk to 1 1/8" OD then turned the compound and cut from the center out making a nice sharp edge for the cutter. I left a small bump in the center of the punch to line up with the punch mark that i made with an ice pick down thru the diaphram cover. Just lined up the punch mark and slid everything in my shop press and punched it out. Perfect. 5 minute job....Bob
It makes you wonder how people manage with out a lathe
John
5 minute job?
I'm callin ya on that Bob.
It'd take
me at least 5 min. to find an appropriate piece of scrap.
I'm thinking a couple of hours start to finish
, but the Cherrio's box he made it from is probably better material then the one he could of purchased for 30 cents.
Nice tip on making a punch on the quick.
Ed
(09-23-2012, 02:53 PM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]5 minute job? I'm callin ya on that Bob.
It'd take me at least 5 min. to find an appropriate piece of scrap.
I have about 1,000 pcs of small scrap like that just for small hurry up jobs. Boxes and boxes of them...Bob
Nice work!
You make a gasket like that without a lathe by using a gasket hammer. I still have one of the tiny ball-pein gasket hammers, I think the head is about an inch long.
This pic is from the internet, but I have a hammer quite a bit smaller than this one.
(09-23-2012, 07:34 PM)NevadaBlue Wrote: [ -> ]Nice work!
You make a gasket like that without a lathe by using a gasket hammer.
Still kickin it old school, eh Ken?
I've done that plenty of times for pump housings, water necks, some manifolds, etc. I don't know that I would want to do it on a carburetor body though.
I'm surprised that Bob didn't have 100 of those gaskets sitting on a shelf somewhere though.